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Re: [O] Exponential numbers in latex table export


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: [O] Exponential numbers in latex table export
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:55:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

Günter Lichtenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a document with many automatically generated tables that contain 
> numbers in exponential Format, e.g. 2e09. When I export the tables to LaTeX 
> and pdf I get something like 2 (-09) in the pdf, if there is no character 
> after the number in the table
>
> Minimal Example:
> |--------------|
> | 1.2e09 (abs) |
> |      2.3e-09 |
> |       3.4e09 |
> |--------------|
>
> exports to a latex table as
>
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{r}
> \hline
> 1.2e09 (abs)\\
> 2.3\,(-09)\\
> 3.4\,(09)\\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
>
> Note that in the first line the number is an exponential, the following 2 are 
> not. I could not find anything in the documentation. What am I missing?
>
> orgmode version is 9.1.4, but the same happens with emacs 25.3 built-in 
> version 8.3.

See `org-latex-table-scientific-notation'. I also find the default value
a bit surprising. I believe it is what Carsten uses.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



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